A glance through the accom the property department reveals the f that prop collected rossing the were valued at fifty thousand pounds, (G$25,000). Crystal deliers and candelabra alone accounted for over G$25,000, with pictures and oil paintings responsible for a similar amount.
Almost as valuable as the properlies were the costumes used in "Victoria the Great." Forty dresses were designed for Anna Neagle te wear ranging through levee costumes, Coronation and State robes, wedding dress, habits and black of he cost are authentic last degree, being based on actual dresses of the Queen served in the London Museum, rary portraits. ese dresses Anton Walbrook, Consort wears fifteen different costumes, designed fr contemporary portraits, and over hundred and fifty military and court costumes were utilized. Many of the latters were originals, ya ed from G$250 to G$600 apiece.
The attempted assassination of Queen Victoria, one of the big thrill scenes of the picture, was filmed on Constitution Hill, where it actually took place. This is a broad avenue skirting Buckingham Palace, and it was there, only a few yards from here a bullet missed Victoria, that, of so long ago, a man armed with a revolver, was arrested after a scuffle. the weapon falling almost at the feet of the then King Edward VIL as he rode by in a procession Musie for the production was pr vided by the Band of His Majesty, Life Guards and the London Sym! phony Orchestra. The scenario and dialogue of the RKO Radio feature were written by Miles Malleson and Charles de Grandcourt,
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